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- Title
Professor Janet Wasko: An Interview with the President of the IAMCR and one of the Key Representatives of the Political Economy of Communication Approach.
- Authors
Prodnik, Jernej A.; Wasko, Janet
- Abstract
This paper presents an interview with Janet Wasko. She is a Professor and Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication and widely considered as one of the key authors working in the tradition of the political economy of communication. Currently she is serving as the President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), one of the key international associations in the field of media and communication studies. She previously held several other positions in the IAMCR and served as the head of the Political Economy-section, which she also helped to establish. Professor Wasko published several influential books on the film industry, especially on Hollywood and the Disney Corporation. We talked especially about the influences on her approach, about her position in the IAMCR, her understanding of how the cultural and media industries work, the political economy approach in media and communication studies, and issues related to the film industry, which she mostly tackles in her own research.
- Subjects
WASKO, Janet; UNIVERSITY of Oregon. School of Journalism &; Communication; COMMUNICATIONS research; JOURNALIST associations; WALT Disney Co.; MOTION picture industry
- Publication
TripleC (Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 2014, Vol 12, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
1726-670X
- Publication type
Interview
- DOI
10.31269/triplec.v12i1.543